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Jessica Herrin, CEO and Founder of Stella & Dot, is a serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded WeddingChannel.com, the world’s leading wedding site. With a vision to create a new kind of company that would offer today's busy woman a career alternative, Jessica wanted to use her savvy to help solve the modern woman's dilemma: achieving success and balance through a career you love. Never one to go with the status quo, Jessica felt that the typical home based business just didn't deliver. With lackluster product, high pressure sales tactics, and old school marketing methods, inventory was ending up in people's closets with little profit in their pockets.

Jessica's vision called for an entirely new concept that could guarantee women flexibility, reward, style, profit and fun. With an irresistible product and exceedingly personal service, a proven formula for passionate earning and personal success was born. In 2007, Jessica built a world class team including esteemed advisor Mike Lohner, sales guru Danielle Redner and Blythe Harris as partner and Chief Creative Officer. Jessica and Blythe named Stella & Dot after their beloved grandmothers.

In May 2016, Jessica released her first book: Find Your Extraordinary: How to Dream Bigger, Live Happier, and Achieve Success on Your Own Terms By Embracing the Entrepreneur In You. Jessica has been recognized for her entrepreneurial accomplishments and her passion in such national outlets as Oprah, Inc. Magazine (Stella & Dot was named one of the fastest growing private companies of the year for 2010 and 2011), Fortune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, InStyle, Glamour magazine and more. She earned a degree in Economics from Stanford U

Jessica Herrin, CEO and Founder of the Stella & Dot Family Brands, is a serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded WeddingChannel.com, the world’s leading wedding site. With a vision to create a new kind of company that would offer today's busy woman a career alternative, Jessica wanted to use her savvy to help solve the modern woman's dilemma: achieving success and balance through a career you love. Never one to go with the status quo, Jessica felt that the typical home based business just didn't deliver. With lackluster product, high pressure sales tactics, and old school marketing methods, inventory was ending up in people's closets with little profit in their pockets.

Jessica's vision called for an entirely new concept that could guarantee women flexibility, reward, style, profit and fun. With an irresistible product and exceedingly personal service, a proven formula for passionate earning and personal success was born. In 2007, Jessica built a world class team including esteemed advisor Mike Lohner, sales guru Danielle Redner and Blythe Harris as partner and Chief Creative Officer. Jessica and Blythe named Stella & Dot after their beloved grandmothers.

In 2014, Jessica launched the Stella & Dot Family Brands, broadening the impact and mission to give every woman the means to style their own life. Growing beyond the flagship accessories brand of Stella & Dot, the Family of Brands allows women to follow their personal passion to create a flexible social selling business opportunity just right for them as an Independent Business Owner. Introducing; KEEP Collective, an innovative charm concept on leather wrap bracelets, metallic bangles and necklaces exclusively sold by KEEP “Designers”; and EVER, a revolutionary, high performance skincare regimen based on a proprietary complex from an ancient botanical that delivers measurable results within 30 days, exclusively sold through “Specialists.” The Stella & Dot Fami

In 2003, Jessica Herrin, then 31, founded Stella & Dot, a direct-selling company dubbed the Avon of jewellery. It now has a turnover of more than £230 million. Jessica lives in San Francisco with her husband and two daughters Charlotte, 12, and Tatum, ten.

On paper I guess you could look at my early career and say I was the internet poster child. By the age of 24, I had dropped out of America’s Stanford Graduate School of Business to co-found a now leading wedding site. We went on to sell it for £49 million.

But by my mid-20s I had already learned the important truth that it’s possible to be commercially successful, but not really successful - because you’re not passionate about what you’re doing.

My lightbulb moment happened in a lift in Dallas. I was standing among a group of saleswomen at a conference for a beauty company and their excitement was palpable. 

They were beaming with pride. And it struck me that the success of this company was about far more than make-up. 

It was about happiness and achievement for those women. At that moment I knew I wanted my next business to be like that.

That isn’t to say Stella & Dot was an overnight success. The main point about it, however, is that we’re empowering women to work in the way they want to, whether it’s flat out or just making a hundred pounds here and there. I’m often asked what lessons I’d like to pass on to my daughters from my years as an entrepreneur.

One thing is to allow them to see opportunities rather than obstacles, whatever field they choose to work in.

Another really important one is to never ask ‘Can this be achieved by a woman?’ but only: ‘Can this be achieved?’

Find Your Extraordinary by Jessica Herrin (amazon.c